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Tumblr Migration 2: Reddit Boogaloo

We all know about the Twitter immigrants, but there seems to be radio silence on what's happening now with Reddit users from certain subreddits doing a similar thing.

What's happening?

Reddit is restricting their API later this month and killing off third-party apps. An AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the CEO Steve Hoffman was held and it was clear that he would continue with the changes.

In protest, thousands of subreddits across the site are planning to go dark for 48 hours on June 12th. Some are planning to continue indefinitely until the changes are reversed.

Okay, so how does this affect Tumblr?

Some subreddits (mainly queer and left-leaning meme ones, don't worry too much about Reddit Atheists™ overrunning us) are encouraging their users to jump ship to our beloved - and beloathed - hellsite. There will be another influx of new users and many will be unfamiliar with how the site works.

What do us Tumblr users do?

Show them how to use the site; introduce them to the site's culture, tell them to reblog shit and curate their dashboard. Sorta like how we welcomed Twitter users back when they flocked here. Kungpowpenising optional.

I'm new from Reddit, what do I do here?

CHANGE YOUR PROFILE PICTURE AND BANNER TO SOMETHING OTHER THAN DEFAULT BECAUSE THIS SITE IS FILLED WITH BOTS AND YOU MIGHT BE MISTAKEN FOR ONE. This is the FIRST thing you should do after getting a blog.

Other folks can help you with stuff like curating your dashboard or creating sideblogs (or you can look shit up) but please, PLEASE just give yourself an icon and reblog some stuff so people don't mistake you for a bot

I'm playing a game right now called Killer Frequency. It's so fun, you play as a radio show host. There is a killer on the loose in a small town. The 911 Operator left town to get help, and you become the operator for tonight.

But they have sections where you have to walk around. The the begin of the game you play as one of his victims, and you can crouch in this game. The walking parts give me anxiety.

Omg I love

Dpxbatman prompt: Jason is finally being legally integrated back into society, but due to the cover story the court in charge of his case mandates that he spend a minimum of a month going to a support group for people dealing with near death experiences.

Jason thought that he'd just have to sit through boring group meetings for a month as he lied through his teeth.

But somehow Bruce had found the one support group in America that was perfect for his sons needs.

'The life after death support group'

What was worse was that Jason was now forced half way across the country to attend a support group in a nowhere town called amity Park for a whole month.

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Danny had no clue why he was here.

Scratch that he knew perfectly well why he was here, his sister had somehow convinced him to at least attend the first meeting of the support group she'd set up.

Who would even attend such a unique and weirdly specific support group?

Danny had no clue, but he decided to take jazz up on her offer, to at the very least show support for his sister on one her weird ventures.

Besides if he found the meeting to be boring or uncomfortable as he suspects it will be he could just leave right?, it's not like he was legally obligated to attend anyway.

YOU HAVE ENTERED

RADICAL SATURDAY

very grateful to the ao3 volunteers and staff who do so much work to maintain an online space where people can post and archive their creative fiction work without fear. i have absolutely no interest in partaking in the discourse icebergs i've seen floating by my dashboard, and i'm certain that the involved volunteers don't, either. now is a good time to appreciate the people who care so much about the site and care about keeping our creative work safe. they are presumably under a lot of stress right now and are doing the best they can. be patient and if you Must message them via social media, please be encouraging rather than demanding/irate/upset/hand-wringing/etc. the volunteers do tend to be pretty good about keeping people updated during outages and this sucks way more for them than for anyone who's just trying to read/upload fic rn, so. Be So Fucking Nice To Them . Please . For The Love Of God